The PBI 2024 Report on the Law Firm Pro Bono Project® Staffing Survey offers insights into law firm staffing methods and the challenges and opportunities associated with various means of constructing and implementing a law firm pro bono program.
Among the Report’s findings, 92 percent of responding firms employ one or more pro bono professionals, with 62 percent of those professionals dedicating virtually all their time to pro bono program oversight and 30 percent splitting their time between oversight and substantive representation of pro bono clients.
You can find the report here.
December 5, 2024
Accenture has been a leader in expanding legal access, with impactful projects like Disability:In and a name change pro bono initiative in Brazil with NGO Casa Florescer. These efforts highlight how in-house legal teams can structure and deliver different pro bono legal services, even within the same corporation.
Listen to hear more from Derek Bolka, Contract Specialist and Project Lead for Disability:In at Accenture, and Luciana Arana, Senior Contracting Counsel at Accenture Brazil, about their respective pro bono efforts in this episode of the Pro Bono Happy Hour podcast.
December 12, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been championed for its potential to enhance pro bono legal services and help close the justice gap. In March, the Pro Bono Institute (PBI) hosted programming on AI + Pro Bono, bringing together pro bono leaders from law firms, in-house legal departments, and public interest organizations to explore the use of AI in legal practice and identify opportunities to enhance efficiencies for pro bono and access to justice. Learn more about this initiative and its impact.
May 14, 2024
PBI is a catalyst, administering projects that support, guide, and inspire legal institutions to enhance access to justice. PBI selects and operates projects that, working in concert, promote synergies and inform and strengthen each other.
In Memoriam
James W. Jones IV
February 28, 1945 – December 11, 2024
Chair Emeritus, PBI Board of Directors
We are devastated by the unexpected passing of James (Jim) W. Jones IV on December 11. Jim was Chair of PBI’s Board of Directors for 27 years, from its inception in 1996 through December 2023. Jim was a dear friend and champion of PBI and its mission, providing wise, warm, and dependable counsel for decades, always with a twinkle in his eyes. Jim believed passionately that lawyers were obligated to help those less fortunate, and he embodied that credo in his personal and professional life. In February 2024, PBI presented Jim with its President’s Award to recognize Jim’s extraordinary contributions to PBI initiatives and unequaled thought and action leadership on pro bono in the legal community.
Jim will be missed far more than we can express, although his influence and impact on PBI and the entire legal and access to justice community will continue to be felt.
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